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2023 Detroit Tigers Spring Training Thread
Jim Cowan replied to RatkoVarda's topic in Detroit Tigers
Absolutely. There are other factors of course, like playing time, proximity to home, etc. But money is the most important. "Playing for a winner" is probably the least likely to be influential. -
He was a good player, playing against guys who were much older when he was in his late teens.
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Hockey and baseball was the most common combination of sports for a Canadian kid back then. You might play football and basketball in high school but they didn't give you anywhere near the cred that hockey and baseball did.
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Yes, he isn't much younger than I am, and I played all through my teens, all over Onrario, and never once saw a 16 year old who was good enough to play pro. At 20 yes I knew a couple of guys who got signed, but never 16. So that caught my eye.
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Lol. Yes, Clark Gillies. I didn't know that he had played baseball. The other first baseman on that team, Bob Bourne, also was an NHL player.
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Spot the Hall of Famer Ladies and gentlemen, your 1972 Covington Astros: https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?id=b1983fb1 There is a Hall of Famer in the group. Do you see him?
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Some of them don't even know who Artie Shaw is.
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These kids today, they don't understand music. That stuff they listen to, it's just noise.
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I forget the name of those cardboard rocket engines that kids like to shoot up in the air...Estes?
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Roger Cedeno, ugh. A big guy who played like a little guy.
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He looked like a decathlon competitor, and probably had the talent too.
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I liked the power and speed combination, and he had the arm to go with it. He had a superb year in Double A at a very young age, and I was convinced.
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I think he already had that conversation with the Tigers last fall, written up by the local press, and was 100% sincere about it.
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Or the 5th Dimension, "Up Up and Away"
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I don't think so either. I loved JD and Cespedes, they were the best hitters in the corners since Kaline and Colavito, but Kaline and Colavito were also great defenders with great arms. Juan Encarnacion was going to be the answer to all of our prayers.
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I would have just taken over the balloon's communication capabilities and played some Kool and the Gang back up to the satellite that was controlling it.
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He had his moments but as you said, there is a lot to dislike also.
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It's a complicated question because I wouldn't have said Eugene Levy was A-list but it seems like Dan Levy has achieved a level of success all on his own.
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He's 6'6", 225...maybe we can get the goons back involved in baseball. Send this guy in to pinch run, send him on the steal, he's out by a mile but he comes up throwing haymakers.
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I can't think of very many subjects where I would value his advice. Men's hairstyles perhaps.
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I'm not among those who wanted him replaced "by one player who will give us more production". Some did, some didn't. I like the guys they brought in, they probably got 4 of them for less than the 7 million that they would have paid Candelario.
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Natural born citizen? So, not Kiefer Sutherland then.
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OK...who the F is Trey Wintgenter?
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Brilliant
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Yeah his hometown is about half an hour up the road here. Hid dad passed away a few years ago and has achieved sainthood there, he still has a reserved parking space at the local rink.
